Unfortunately, we are forced to announce that Chris Sabin will not be able to wrestle on the European Vacation shows due to reinjuring his leg at the last TNA Pay Per View. Though injuries are unavoidable in professional wrestling, we would still like to apologize. Due to the last minute nature of this cancelation, finding a flight from the US to Europe is next to impossible, and so we would like to assure fans that we are doing our best to find suitable replacements for both the Essen & Kent shows.

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I'd say a big problem is there are only a handfull of names that would be worthy replacements. Those names would be Robbie Brookside, Doug Williams, James Tighe or someone along those lines. I think Robbie would go down well with the German crowd aswell so would be a fine replacement.

Aaron wrote:Yeah, Robbie would be an awesome replacement for the both nights. Unfortunately, he's already booked for ASW in Croydon on Sunday night. . . maybe he would jack it in for PWG, can't see why he would.

Petey Williams is shit so no thanks on that account. James Tighe is at IPW on Saturday so can't do Germany - Jack Storm would be a better replacement thatn Tighe anyway.

Doug is touring with NOAH right now.

So Robbie Brookside for Essen and Stevie Lynn for Orpington would be the best they could do from local talent IMO. . . so I'd look towards Chris Hero once more! He is also very over in Germany.

I don't see the point in bringing Hero over as there are numerous wrestlers in Europe who do what he does only better. I think Tighe is the best replacement avaliable. Brookside is loyal to ASW so your right to doubt the possibility of him. I'm not sure about Lynn to be honest, despite me hearing some good things I have also heard many bad things.
Overall however I would rather we just saw a card change using the current talent and instead of announcing it ahead of time they should just change the card on the night to fit in with anything that happend in Germany. That way the DVD's would have some continuity and story progress rather than just a bunch of matches.

We would have loved to bring out another wrestler from the United States, but due to the last minute nature of Sabin's injury, we (PWG) could not secure talent due to previous bookings and a last minute flight to Europe for that individual was out of our budget.

There is a sports axiom that states "injury creates opportunity." We wish Sabin a speedy recovery and welcome Steve Allison to PWG.